Cattle food.



siding method of preparing the same.

BERNARD HERMAN BERTELS, 0F AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS.

CATTLE FOOD.

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, Specification of letters Patent. Application filed June 18, 1907.Serial No. 378,858.

' Patented Apr. 11,1911.

To all whom'itmay concern:

Be it known that I, BERNARD HERMAN Bnnrnrs, agriculturist andmanufacturer, a

subject of the Queen of the Netherlands, re-

at THuis de Hinde, Amsterdam, Netherlands, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Cattle Foods, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new foodmixture for animals, more particularlyfor horses and other beasts of draft, and to the In preparing theimproved to a mixture of suitable food-materialsfor instance, of hay ofdesirable descriptions, oats, horse-beans, linseed, disintegrated orpulverized, and molasses, etc-a drying vegetable oil (6. g. linseed oil)in the hot and whilesuitably mingling, so that during the agitation'ofthe mass at a high temperature the linseed oil added, becoming thoroughly liquid through the heat, impregnates the various ingredients ofthe mixture or coats them over. In this manner the food mixture (whoseingredients are so selected in respect to nature and quantity as toconstitute a perfect or complete food) are rendered stable, since thelinseed oil makes the mass I unhygroscopic, thus preventing theformation of mold. The food-mixture is thus rendered stable withouthaving necessarily to be pressed. The linseed oil also fulfils thepurpose of making the fodder more digestible, and owingto its increasingthe percentage of fat and to its other properties, it acts extremelybeneficially on the organism of the animals. 7

According to my invention, as already mentioned, there is no necessityat all to apply pressure with a view to impregnating or coating over thesolid constituents of the mixture, since for these purposes the additionof linseed oil in the hot is suflicient. If according to my invention, Iemploy pressure also, 1t need only be such as is requisite toagglomerate ingredients of the mixture, since it has no-other functiontofulfil.

In my new process I impregnate or coat the ingredients of the mixture inthe hot, for the purpose of obtaining a really stable final product.Foods containing water do not keep, and to dry them, apart from thetrouble, would not have the effect of rendering them stable. I

To prepare, for example, a provender for food, I add horses, myinvention is carried out in the following manner :The best sorts ofclover hay, or lucerne'hay, vetch hay, and meadow hay, are ground tomeal by means of special machmer Oats, beans, and linseed cake arelikewise each ground separately to meal. To the hay meal, of which about35 parts are taken, there is then ,added of the other meals: about 10parts oat meal, about 5 parts horse-bean meal, and about 2% partslinseed meal, the whole being intimately mixed or ground together in anysuitable manner, in the cold, 71}- parts-molasses being 4 also run intothe mixture. In a few minutes an almost dry, mealy mixture is obtained,which is conducted automatically to a mixing machine, capable of beingheated, and in which the mass is brought, with the addition of about 1%parts vegetable oil (6. g. linseed oil) to a temperature of about 110Cent. The mass is then run off and allowed to cool, whereupon it isready for use and thoroughly stable. The mixture can,' however, beconducted from the mixing machine to a special automatic press, suitedfor this purpose, in order to produce a permanently dry and stable,solid cake or block food for cattle or horses, which will keep for anylength of time.

The preparation, specially of a compressed,"

a horse fed on the ordinary oat and hay provender receives less albumenand fat than is requisite for rational feedlng; whereas a.

food prepared according to my invention contains the percentages of fatand albumen which science demands, and in addition thereto containsalmost double the quantity of phosphoric acid and lime, organicallycombined, contained in other foods, which is of great importance,especially for boneforming. Furthermore, the food prepared according tomy invention is cheaper than oats of considerably less nutritive value,Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. The process of preparing a balanced ration for cattle consistin inreducing a mixture of suitable forage ood materials to.

a fine state of division and intimately minling the elements of themixture of suitable mixture, adding a siccative vegetable Oll whi esimultaneously heating the mixture'to a temperature of about 110 C. andagitating the same and then allowing said mixture to cool.

2. The process of preparing a balanced ration for cattle consistin inreducing a mixture of suitable forage ood materials to a fine state ofdivision and intimately min-Q glinig the elements of the mixture ofsuitable 00 materials by grinding together and at the same time mixingtherewith molasses in the cold in proportions to make a dry mealymixture, adding linseed oil while simultaneously heating the mixture toa temperature of about 110 C. and agitating the same and then allowingsaid mixture to cool.

3. The process of preparing a balanced ration for cattle consisting inreducing separately a mixture of suitable forage food materialstoa stateof fine division, intimately mingling the elements of the mixture bygrinding together, and at the same time mixing therewith molasses in thecold in propor- Mom to make a dry mealy mixture, heating the mixture toa temperature of about 110 C. and adding linseed oil and the like duringsuch lattertreatment and subsequently pressing the mass into the form ofcakes.

. 4. The process of preparing a balanced ration for cattle consisting inreducing a mixture of suitable forage food materials to a finely dividedstate, intimately commingling the same by grinding, simultaneouslyadding thereto molasses in the cold in proportions to make a dry mealymixture, adding to this mass a siccative Vegetable oil and heating themass simultaneously with the addition of said oil thereto to atemperature of about 110 (J. whereby the individual elements will becomeenveloped by the oil and

